Weapon - The best in slot will be
Grace of the Goddess. Not even a mirror wand can beat this, the sheer amount of damage this weapon provides, makes it irreplaceable. Try getting a well rolled one and use Tempering orbs to get a Physical Enchant
Helmet -
The Dark Monarch (Summoned Golems) is the best in slot, since we're scaling our damage via golem numbers, this is irreplaceable item for this slot. Make sure you're getting the golem one.
Body Armor -
Incandescent Heart is my personal choice here, offering a good balance between damage and survivability. Focus on getting a max rolled one for "Gain 20% of elemental damage as extra chaos" as mentioned above we have A LOT of elemental damage, and gaining 20% of that as chaos, is insane. It also offers great defenses with decent ES rolls and Armour rolls. Additionally taking 20% of elemental damage from hits as chaos, basically means you take 25% less damage from ele hits because we're going
Chaos Inoculation.
Rings - Lost Unity, no way to replace this item.
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Circle of Ambition (Purity: Buff Effect) This will be your 2nd option for the ring slot. Try getting one with
Herald of Purity buff effect, 10% increased mana reservation efficiency of herald skills, and the other 2 mods can be whatever. If you can get a ring with 2 herald buff effects, preferably ash and purity, that would be insane. IT MUST HAVE FLAMMABILITY CURSE IMPLICIT!!!!!!!!!!
Amulet -
The Primordial Chain with a +1 curse corruption implicit. Anoint
Dirty Techniques
Belt -
Mageblood for huge quality of life and survivability. If this is out of your budget, focus on capping your resistances
Shield - A rare crafted shield with as much Energy Shield as you can and a +1 to level of all physical spell skill gems prefix. For the suffixes, try to get INT and resistances.
Gloves -
Warlock Gloves with as much ES as possible, DEX, INT and 1 resistance. I bought mine with the fractured DEX, and spammed Deafening Essences of Woe until I hit good prefixes, then eldritch currency the suffixes.
Boots -
Warlock Boots with lots of movement speed, lots of Energy Shield, INT and resistances. I bought mine with the 35% fractured MS, then spammed Essences of Woe just like on the gloves until I hit T1 % ES, then finished the suffixes with eldritch currency.
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For the Jewels, you want 3 large 8 passive cluster jewels with
Primordial Bond. The other nodes don't matter as they are useless. I went with
Primordial Bond and
Renewal as this combo gives me
Primordial Bond on the bottom of the cluster, and
Renewal on the top, so I can get more stats on my way to the jewel slot.
Your Forbidden Flesh and Flame combo will be what's the cheapest. When i started
Bastion of Elements was the cheapest, so I went with that. It's mandatory you take
Liege of the Primordial and
Bringer of Ruin, so just swap around as your budget permits.
Melding of the Flesh will allow us to bring our max resistances as high as we can. For me, it's 84%, but it can go higher with more investment.
You want to use 2x
Primordial Eminence and 1x
The Anima Stone for more golem buff effect and an additional golem.
I'm using 4 Megalomaniacs that give me
Primordial Bond. Other useful nodes could be:
Fan the Flames
Molten One's Mark
Endbringer
Heraldry
Enduring Composure
Prismatic Dance
Prismatic Carapace
Prismatic Heart, basically anything that get your max res even higher.
The Balance of Terror with Elemental Weakness is great for damage, basically giving you up to 40% of physical damage as a random element if you've cast
Elemental Weakness in the past 10 seconds. So just spam
Elemental Weakness on bosses or once every 10 seconds, and you're fine.
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Grafts - I'm using 1
Draining Eshgraft which Sap's the enemy, and giving me 16% increased max ES, and 1
Flamecaller Xophgraft that gives me the mod "Damaging Ailments deal damage 10% faster" while covering the enemies in Ash, albeit, it's not very reliable.